Saturday, September 13, 2014

Bush-Hitler...Obama-Stalin?

The use- and abuse- of power as regards speech in this
country has progressed far beyond distressing.First Amendment rights (among others) are nearly completely ignored. The
Constitution- and the rule of law- have been tossed out in favor of raw emotion
and the will of the politically-correct elite in power, and their sycophants in
the media and academia.

Donald
Sterling and other owners of sports franchises are being forced to relinquish
their teams,have their financial health
jeopardized and their reputations permanently destroyed because of politically
incorrect things they have said.
‘Sticks and stones’?

It’s
hard to keep up with all the threats to free speech of late. This commentator
was pulled off the air for this remark, that one suspended for possibly
offending this group, and this one boycotted for insensitive statements
regarding another group. One can’t use this term, can’t even utter this word, can’t phrase something in
this manner. And you sure as hell can’t say Washington ‘Redskins’.

Fox
News should be banned. And talk radio. And we need to shut the f---ing
‘Tea-baggers’ up, that’s for sure. We’ll call it the ‘Fairness Doctrine’. That
should do it.

Funny,
the administration doesn’t even know if they- or we- are in a war against ISIS.
John Kerry: ‘”we aren’t in a war against….”

Obama: “the Islamic State is
neither Islamic or a state.” Yet today the presidential spokesperson claimed
“it is a war in the same sense that we are at war with Al Qaeda
and the Taliban.”

Yet, they do know, unequivocally,
that the Republicans are conducting a ‘war
on women’.

And now this. A teacher at McKinley
Middle School in Washington, D.C. has given her kids a homework assignment
asking them to compare and contrast Adolf Hitler and…George W. Bush. In the
form of a Venn diagram, to help form a deep connection between the two. The
assignment stated, “now that we have read about two men of power who abused
their power in various ways, we will compare and contrast them and their
actions. Please refer to your texts.”

Well, let’s see. Hitler murdered
over 6 million Jews. Baked ‘em in ovens. ‘W’ wouldn’t even criticize his
predecessor after his crew trashed the White House for his arrival. Led us through
the shocking, dark days after 9/11. Never demanded that a single Jew- or
anybody else for that matter- be baked in an oven.

There are so many getting called
out and disciplined- and rightly so for the most part- for these insensitive
statements. Yet, they are losing
their jobs, their livelihoods, their reputation, etc. They are being fired,
suspended, fined, punished, excluded and made to undergo ‘sensitivity
training’.

But this teacher who handed out the
hate speech and the insane homework assignment? Legal charges?Hate speech? Nope. Fired? Nope. Suspended?
Nope. Fined? Nope. She was instructed to apologize
to her students and their parents. All better!

Can you imagine if a teacher had
assigned homework that instructed her kids to compare and contrast Barack
Hussein Obama and Joseph Stalin?! Hmmm? And they are much closer, ideologically
speaking, than Bush and Hitler! Obama and Pol-Pot? Idi Amin Dada?

Daily Trivia Quiz Answer

Today's Answer: Andrew Jackson. ("Poll" got so worked up before the service he apparently had to be removed from the premises, as he was cussing long and loud).

Q) What words appear on the front of the penny, nickel, dime and quarter, alongside the likeness of presidents?

A) "Liberty" and "In God We Trust"

An Ode To Life

Appreciate all you have, as it- and you- will soon be gone. Leave no heartfelt words unspoken, no sweet gesture incomplete, no act of love undone. Love your spouse with passion and abandon, your kids with patience and understanding but also a firm guidance. Love also the truth, no matter how hard. If pursued by enough people with enough courage, it really will set us free.

And don't forget, we didn't ask to be born. We didn't create ourselves. We are not gods. There is a higher power.

Fireworks of the Mind

Write It Up

Whence Shall Come Another?

True Then, True Now

"If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves."- Winston Churchill

Time Well Wasted

The power lies within your hands To do with what you may But the hourglass is filled with sands Of endless yesterdays